OSLO, March 10 -- Kia Norway has published an Instagram ad depicting the company's EV3 model affixed with a bumper sticker saying "I bought this after Elon went crazy."

The bumper sticker is a play on a similar one - "I bought this before Elon went crazy" - which some Tesla owners have affixed to their vehicles to distance themselves from the controversial politics of the company's billionaire CEO, Elon Musk.

Musk performed a Nazi salutes during Donald Trump's inauguration day celebrations in January, triggering global outrage.

The salute as well as his controversial role as the head of Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency", so named to let it use the DOGE acronym after the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, has continued to alienate Tes...